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11 Companion Gardening Ideas to Banish Pests

11 Companion Gardening Ideas to Banish Pests

Aug 19, 2014 | NOH Blog

Insects are often such a pain – especially when they are in your garden and all you want to do is protect the food you are growing. How do you get rid of these pesky invaders without a ton of insecticides? And can you do something, even here in Southwest...

Meet our newest acquisition

May 11, 2009 | Garden, Homesteading Life

Now that all the paperwork has finally been finished, I’d like to introduce you to our new orchard! Our name for it perhaps is a bit dramatic since it’s only around 1000 sq. meters or a quarter of an acre. But it’s only 10 minutes walk from our front...

Trees, tripods and other random stuff

Mar 23, 2009 | Expat Life, Homesteading Life

I’ve been in a cleaning frenzy today. We’re trying out a new system here where I use Monday as my “get the house back in order after the bomb went off weekend is over.” We’re usually so busy focusing on getting big projects done that the...

Our seedlings are indeed seedlings!

Mar 31, 2008 | Garden

As usual I’m a bit overdue to write about what is happening with our little seedlings – but what can you do? I did take some photos of them on March 18th which was about a month after they’d been planted. As you may notice, the zucchini were...